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Media highlight: Poet George Elliott Clarke celebrates 200 years of Dalhousie University

George Elliott Clarke expects that it will take about an hour Monday at Halifax's city hall to perform his epic commissioned poem condensing 200 years of the history of Dalhousie University into 34 pages. He plans to perform rather than recite the poem because Canada's former parliamentary poet laureate believes that emotion is essential to poetry, especially when the verses are about a place that transformed him.​